Social networking giant Facebook launched a suicide protection effort Tuesday. Facebook hopes to help users who express suicidal thoughts on the site by connecting them with a crisis counselor through the site's chat system.
Midwestern facilities that house immigrants facing deportation rely on an overly harsh prison model that lacks oversight and deprives many immigrants of legal recourse, according to a new report.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in nine months of unrest in Syria, the U.N. human rights chief said, as an insurgency begins to overshadow what had been mostly peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, on Monday sued the city of Chicago over its new vacant buildings ordinance.
Amnesty said it believes hundreds of other prisoners are languishing in death row in the kingdom.
Jammeh has been in power in Gambia since engineering a bloodless coup as a 29-year-old in 1994,
Linden, who hailed from KwaZulu-Natal, reportedly asserted her innocence and claimed the drugs were planted in her suitcase.
Local elections were held in Syria on Monday, but will a vote do anything to change the ongoing protests and unrest in the country?
Thus far, Tshisekedi has called for his supporters to remain calm, refrain from violence, and “await his instructions.”
De la Cruz, who was also known as Don Trino, was the leader of the Nahua indigenous people.
Awarding this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the head of the selection panel forecast that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would succumb to a wind of history blowing through the Arab world and be forced to accept democratic change.
Assad forces violently suppress protesters in the Syrian city of Homs and elsewhere.
Siri is the most popular feature of the Apple iPhone 4S. The personal, intelligent voice assistant is not only helpful but also can keep iPhone users entertained for hours. However, Siri has its own share of flaws.
That translates into tens of thousands of kids “disappearing” from India every year.
Radio news host Luz Marina Paz was fatally shot by motorcycle-riding gunmen on Tuesday as she commuted to work in the capital of Honduras.
An American named Joe Gordon was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison by a court in Thailand on Thursday for defaming the country's king and royal family on his blog.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's commentary expressing doubts about the Israeli democratic setup, which came hot on the heels of two earlier instances of top U.S. officials suggesting Israel lacked dedication towards the Palestinian peace process, has sparked a an uproar in Israel and among American Jewish groups.
Just hours after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left Myanmar last week, property prices began to soar.
On Tuesday the Obama administration said it will use foreign aid to promote and protect LGBT rights around the world.
The United States will began using foreign aid as a means of improving gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights abrod, according to an announcement by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Dow Chemical saved part of the London 2012 Olympics, but across the world people in India are furious about the sponsorship, because Dow is thought to be responsible for the 1984 Bhopal disaster
Outraged by the Kimberly Process' inability to prevent illegal trade in conflict diamonds (also called blood diamonds) in Africa, a key founding member quit the regulatory body on Monday.
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